I love this album. May not be his funniest, but when he devotes ten minutes listing examples of extreme human behavior like necrophilia, bestiality, murder, torture, human sacrifice, it makes you proud to be a human being. I like the nervous laughter. And as soon as he throws in the more obvious joke, like how fat Americans are, then the crowd roars with laughter and relief.

Nobody can make any circumstance unhappy like Larry David. There's just something fun about watching him ruining every situation, hating everyone including himself. Grab some popcorn and have a blast.

John Waters doesn't hate a certain group of people, he just hates people. I like that.

The description on the netflix sleeve said this movie was "about a young man who withdrawls from his life by hiding in his room and listening to blistering industrial music." When you actually watch it, it turns out the life he's hiding from is his dad making porn. This movie is so disturbing, repulsive and not entertaining that I stood up and applauded during the closing credits.

Life is horrible, yet entertaining to read about!

Lots of short single page stories. But my favorite is one of the few longer stories. It's about the ultimate roommates from hell that will not leave under any circumstance.

Perhaps you can call Modest Mouse optimistic. But only from the point of view that they are bitter cynics and are trying to not fall head first into a world of deep negativity and pessimism. So you "choose optimism" instead of death. I get it. Go team!

Zappa is one sarcastic prick. He both mocks and validates the hippie movement. His guitar solos, by the way are gorgeous. The only time, it seems, he outputs without irony or parody.

Adam Carrola. I used to get his radio show up here in Northern California. Beautiful splendid stuff. I'm not really a fan of his other work, but I can listen to him rant and rave on the daily. It used to make my mornings that much shinier. "What can't Adam complain about?" That's what I'm talking about.

Are you bitter if you, surrounded by wealth, apathy, and cruelty, feel sorta guilty? Answer: Perhaps.

This is a simply marvelous collection of Matt Groening's Life in Hell series. (which for some reason seems to only be Akbar & Jeff nowadays, but back before Simpsons leaned more on the side of the depressed bunnies.)

Every character in a Tiger Lillies song is a degenerate of some sort, faces death, is going to hell, is miserable, commits horrible acts of sex-violence-crime. This album features their only hit single, "Banging on the nails." A pretty little ditty about the man who is gleefully crucifying Jesus to the cross.

Woody Allen shows different flaws in himself with every one of his movies. Some are silly; some are serious. This is the one where he said, "I am every flaw! Life is dry, pointless, full of pain and not really worth laughing at." With a handful of "I hate myself's" thrown in for good measure."

I'm on the fence here, with it's redemptive quality and whatnot. I'm not a big fan of the darkness to light angle. Sure, we all love darkness. But is that good enough to sustain us through the redemption side? You tell me. Give me a call at KL5-8191.